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It would be interesting to see a tree map of the sizes in Linux, like how big are the drivers, the network stack, ... Maybe 99% of those 130Mb are the drivers,

It would be interesting to see a tree map of the sizes in Linux, like how big are the drivers, the network stack, ... Maybe 99% of those 130Mb are the drivers, a lot were added to the kernel since 1997 I guess

maxmouchet 8y ago
Indeed, according to [1] a bit more than half of the Linux source is the drivers. But I don't know if those proportions still holds after compilation. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/223753 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/223753